She Kept Asking for the Moon
1983 · 81 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 229 VOTES · DIR. Štefan Uher
Overview
Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. Now, 18 years later, her daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.
Dialogue Timeline — 760 lines
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00:00:12 Grazing horses on CONCRETE
00:05:48 Some horses died out, I'm going to Ostrava.
00:11:16 Asleep? I will wean from sleeping.
00:14:32 Have you seen?
00:17:12 She paid for it, but enough.
00:20:31 Pavlinka, I do not care where you were last night
00:23:44 Margarita has fallen on the roof.
00:26:45 If you're already so smart
00:28:56 Good night. Good night.
00:31:23 Thank you, Bertie.
00:34:03 See Johanka
00:36:20 If you want, I will give you my picture.
00:39:24 He said I was laughing like a mare, and I was groping other men.
00:43:44 My aunt told me that Pavlinka wanted to meet me.
00:46:00 Stop, please!
00:48:53 Know. I saw you at the show.
00:52:06 We work in Ostrava.
00:54:53 I'm afraid I have something to offer you ...
00:57:29 Hello!
01:03:20 Mihalka, I'm so glad!
01:05:46 Thank you.
01:08:23 Come on, guys!
01:11:09 And your Stefano? What?
01:13:49 My mommy, but I love it.